Penélope Cruz Biography

Penélope Cruz Sánchez (pronounced [peˈnelope kɾuθ ˈsantʃeθ]) (born April 28, 1974, in Madrid), better known as Penélope Cruz, is a Golden Globe- and Academy Award-nominated Spanish actress. Originally a dancer, she soon moved into Spanish television[1], and since then she has appeared in a string of films in Spanish, English, French and Italian.


Academy Awards

* 2007 Nominated Academy Award Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for: Volver (2006)

ALMA Awards

* 1999 Nominated ALMA Award Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film for: The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
* 2002 Nominated ALMA Award Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for: Vanilla Sky (2001)

BAFTA Awards

* 2007 Nominated BAFTA Award Best Actress in a Leading Role for: Volver (2006)

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards

* 2001 Nominated Blockbuster Entertainment Award Favorite Actress - Drama/Romance for: All the Pretty Horses (2000)

Cannes Film Festival - To the female ensemble cast.

* 2006 Won Best Actress for: Volver (2006)award shared with Carmen Maura; Lola Dueñas; Blanca Portillo; Yohana Cobo; Chus Lampreave

David di Donatello Awards

* 2004 Won David Best Actress (Migliore Attrice Protagonista) for: Non ti muovere (2004)

European Film Awards

* 1999 Nominated European Film Award Best Actress for: La Niña de tus ojos (1998)
* 2001 Nominated Audience Award Best Actress for: Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
* 2003 Nominated Audience Award Best Actress for: Fanfan la tulipe (2003)
* 2004 Nominated European Film Award Best Actress for: Non ti muovere (2004)
* 2004 Won Audience Award Best Actress for: Non ti muovere (2004)
* 2006 Won European Film Award Best Actress for: Volver (2006)

Fotogramas de Plata

* 1999 Won Fotogramas de Plata Best Movie Actress (Mejor Actriz de Cine)for: La Niña de tus ojos (1998)
* 2007 Won Fotogramas de Plata Best Movie Actress (Mejor Actriz de Cine)for: Volver (2006)

Golden Globe Awards

* 2007 Nominated Golden Globe Best Actress in a Dramatic Role for: Volver (2006)

Goya Awards

* 1993 Nominated Goya Best Lead Actress (Mejor Actriz Principal) for: Jamón, jamón (1992)
* 1999 Won Goya Best Lead Actress (Mejor Actriz Principal) for: La Niña de tus ojos (1998)
* 2005 Nominated Goya Best Lead Actress (Mejor Actriz Principal) for: Non ti muovere (2004)
* 2007 Won Goya Best Lead Actress (Mejor Actriz Principal) for: Volver (2006)

Imagen Foundation Awards

* 2003 - Creative Achievement Award

MTV Movie Awards

* 2002 Nominated MTV Movie Award Breakthrough Female Performance for: Blow (2001)

Ondas Awards

* 1993 Won Film Award Best Acting (Mejor Interpretación) Tied with Javier Bardem (No award category given officially).

Peñíscola Comedy Film Festival

* 1995 Won Best Actress for: Todo es mentira (1994)

Razzie Awards

* 2002 Nominated Razzie Award Worst Actress for: Blow (2001), Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) and Vanilla Sky (2001).

Spanish Actors Union

* 1993 Nominated Newcomer Award for: Jamón, jamón (1992)
* 1993 Won Award of the Spanish Actors Union Film: Supporting Performance (Secundario Cine) for: Belle epoque (1992)
* 1998 Nominated Award of the Spanish Actors Union Film: Performance in a Minor Role (Reparto Cine) for: Carne trémula (1997)
* 1999 Won Award of the Spanish Actors Union Film: Lead Performance (Protagonista Cine) for: La Niña de tus ojos (1998)
* 2007 Won Award of the Spanish Actors Union Film: Lead Performance (Protagonista Cine) for: Volver (2007)



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Hilary Duff Biography

Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress, pop singer/Songwriter and entrepreneur. She has an elder sister, Haylie Duff, who is also an actress/singer.

After gaining fame for her starring role on the television show Lizzie McGuire, Duff went on to have a film career, and her most commercially successful pictures include Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003), and A Cinderella Story (2004). She reportedly earned $15 million in 2005. Duff has expanded her repertoire into pop music, with three RIAA certified-platinum albums and over thirteen million albums sold worldwide, and she has launched a clothing line, Stuff by Hilary Duff, and an exclusive perfume with Elizabeth Arden. Duff and her mother were listed as producers for the movie Material Girls[3] and she will soon produce her sisters debut album.
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Britney Spears' New Song n recent performance Parodied

Avril Lavigne Biography

Avril Lavigne Whibley, better known by her birth name of Avril Lavigne, (born September 27, 1984) is a Canadian rock/punk-pop singer, musician and actress. In 2006, Canadian Business Magazine ranked her the seventh most powerful Canadian in Hollywood, and in 2007 she won ninth place in the Jabra Music Contest for the Best Band in the World, based on fan votes from around the world.


Avril Lavigne was born in Belleville, Ontario to a devout Christian family. Lavigne's musical talent was first spotted at the age of two when her mother says Lavigne began singing along with her on church songs. The family moved to Napanee, Ontario, when Lavigne was five years old.

In 1998, Lavigne won a competition to sing with fellow Canadian singer Shania Twain on her first major concert tour. She appeared alongside Twain at her concert in Ottawa, appearing on stage to sing "What Made You Say That".

She was discovered by her first professional manager, Cliff Fabri, while singing country covers at a Chapters bookstore in Kingston, Ontario. During a performance with the Lennox Community Theatre, Lavigne was spotted by local folk singer Steve Medd (a relation of the influential Canadian journalist, Ben Medd), who invited her to sing on his song "Touch the Sky" for his 1999 album Quinte Spirit. She also sang on "Temple of Life" and "Two Rivers" for his follow up album, My Window to You, in 2000

Elizabeth Hurley Biography

Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born June 10, 1965) is an English actress, fashion model, producer and designer.

Elizabeth Hurley was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England in 1965.[1] Hurley's father, a lapsed Catholic of Irish descent, was a British Army major, while her mother, an Anglican, was a schoolteacher at Kempshott Infant School.[1] She has an older sister, Debbie, and a younger brother, Michael.

Hurley took ballet classes as a child. She went to Kempshott Junior and Infants school, and the Harriet Costello School now known as Costello Technology College. Hurley later attended Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke, for one year, followed by Basingstoke College of Technology and won a scholarship to the London Studio Centre




* Aria (1987) .... Marietta
* Rowing with the Wind (1988) .... Claire Clairmont
* Act of Will (1989) (TV) .... Christina
* Death Has a Bad Reputation (1990) (TV) .... Julia Latham
* Kill Cruise (1990) .... Lou
* The Orchid House (1991) (TV) .... Natalie
* The Long Winter (1992) .... Emma Stapleton
* Passenger 57 (1992) .... Sabrina Ritchie
* Beyond Bedlam (1993) .... Stephanie Lyell
* Sharpe's Enemy (1994) (TV) .... Lady Isabella Farthingdale
* The Shamrock Conspiracy (1995) (TV) .... Cecilia Harrison
* Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1995) .... Antonia Dyer
* Harrison: Cry of the City (1996) (TV) .... Cecilia Harrison
* Samson and Delilah (1996) (TV) .... Delilah
* Dangerous Ground (1997) .... Karen
* Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) .... Vanessa Kensington
* Permanent Midnight (1998) .... Sandra
* My Favorite Martian (1999) .... Brace Channing
* Edtv (1999) .... Jill
* Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) .... Vanessa Kensington
* The Weight of Water (2000) .... Adaline Gunne
* Bedazzled (2000) .... The Devil
* Double Whammy (2001) .... Dr. Ann Beamer
* Bad Boy (2002) .... Anna Lockheart
* Serving Sara (2002) .... Sara Moore
* Method (2004) .... Rebecca Fairbanks
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Keira Knightley About

Keira Christina Knightley (pronounced /ˈki.ɹə ˈnaɪt.lɪ/; born 26 March 1985) is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress, and came to international prominence in 2003, after co-starring in the films Bend It Like Beckham and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Knightley has since become a notable lead actress, having appeared in several Hollywood films and earning an Academy Award nomination for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in Joe Wright's 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Knightley was born in Teddington, Middlesex, England to Sharman Macdonald, a Scottish actress turned award-winning playwright, and Will Knightley, an English theatre and television actor. She has an elder brother, Caleb, who was born in 1979. Knightley lived most of her life in Richmond, attending Teddington School and Esher College. Knightley suffers from dyslexia, but nevertheless achieved good grades in school to please her parents, and was thus permitted to acquire a talent agent and pursue an acting career. Knightley has noted that she was "single-minded about acting" during her childhood. She performed in a number of local amateur productions including After Juliet (written by her mother) and United States (written by her then drama teacher, Ian McShane).
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